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More Quotes by Erich Fromm
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.
Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears
The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.Fromm
An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.
